Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Preparing You for Boards and Beyond!
Choose Your Path
Psychiatric-Mental Health NP Roadmap
From a PMHNP Student to a Practicing PMHNP
Five milestones every Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner walks through. Each one has a Barkley resource built for it.
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Build foundation
Practice questions, focused readings, and texts that strengthen your weak areas before exam day
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Test your readiness
Simulate the certification exam with timed 100-question DRTs. Identify areas for improvement. Remediate with Barkley Blocks or use Barkley’s Brain Boosters to improve confidence, critical thinking, and recall.
Diagnostic Readiness Tests PMHNP Brain Boosters Pick and Choose Barkley Blocks
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Take a review course
Your certification review, your way. Choose the format that works best for you; get the same trusted, interactive review experience with the flexibility to learn your way.
Online Live Webinar Self-Paced Home Study Pick and Choose Barkley Blocks
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Pass your boards
Whether you choose AANP or ANCC, the entire Barkley library is built to help you pass on the first try.
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Stay certified
We’re still here as your CE journey begins. Once you’re certified, switch to the certified NP path.
PMHNP Resource Hub
Your Toolkit
Devise the perfect plan to help you succeed by mixing and matching our PMHNP student resources.
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Certification Review
Practice Question Textbook
A comprehensive textbook featuring 300 questions with detailed rationales, discussions, and case studies.
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Certification Review
Practice Exams
100-item Diagnostic Readiness Tests (DRTs) complete with rationales and detailed score report to build a remediation plan tailored to your needs.
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Certification Review
PMHNP CE Store
Dive into special topics to remediate or strengthen your knowledge.
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Certification Review
Online Live Webinars
Our unparalleled certification review course, presented live over Zoom. Knock it all out in just 2 days! You don’t have to do it alone.
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Certification Review
Home Study
Prepare at your own pace with our self-guided certification review course. Choose from three different tiers.
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Certification Review
Barkley’s Brain Boosters
A fast-paced game-style study tool to increase confidence, recall, and critical-thinking skills.
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Certification Review
Barkley Blocks
Our comprehensive review broken down into smaller focused modules to study just what you need when you need it.
What are PMHNP students saying about using Barkley?
The recordings were great. The presenters were clear, engaged, and well spoken. Thank you for covering so many topics.
Great overview- I loved the comparison of personalities with movies (used Willy Wonka, etc). This helped the ideas stick!
Material and presentation are excellent.
The information was clear ant to the point.
Course content was simple and organized.
Great presentation covering a very important topic.
They gave little tricks to remember information.
I liked the audio lectures. I am an audio/visual learner. Listening to the lectures helped me retain knowledge.
Easy to understand.
Very thorough.
Education Designed for PMHNP Success, Not Just to Pass Board Exams
Barkley & Associates, Inc. was created to deliver education that actually serves nurse practitioners, whether you’re preparing for certification or advancing your clinical practice. We focus on relevance, clarity, and outcomes, so your time is spent learning what truly matters at each stage of your career.
Our approach emphasizes:
- Exam-aligned certification review built around AANP and ANCC standards
- Clinically relevant continuing education for practicing NPs
- Structured learning that prioritizes high-yield concepts over excess content
- Flexible formats designed for real schedules, not ideal ones
- Trusted resources used by NP students and professionals nationwide
